The Mackinaw City Village Council will take no formal action regarding statements made at Thursday's regular meeting by Ken Harrington, the former Odawa tribal chairman who was recalled in 2011.

"We will refer his statements to our legal counsel as information," said Village President Jeff Hingston. "From there, I have no idea where it will go but we as a Council won't take any immediate action on his information."

Harrington, who was not on the meeting's agenda, spoke for about seven minutes during the public comment portion. His topic began with news that he had won a lawsuit against the Odawa Tribal Council, with a tribal judge ruling the Tribal Council had extended its power unconstitutionally when it approved a May 2011 amendment grating itself the authority to appropriate funds by motion without presenting the motion to the tribal chairman for potential veto.

Harrington read a laundry list to Mackinaw City officials Thursday alleging that the Odawa Tribe is under-financed in operations at its Petoskey casino and that projections are off base for turning a profit at a proposed casino in Mackinaw City.

"This tribal citizen is opposed to ignorant borrowing," Harrington concluded in his statements. "This tribal citizen is skeptical to tribal council projections."